GREENSBORO, N.C. — Cone Health has installed advanced weapons detection systems in Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville and Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro.
They will be used in the hospital's emergency departments starting Thursday, Feb. 29.
The systems are designed to enhance security and prevent violence in the emergency departments of the hospitals, where staff, patients, and visitors may face stressful situations.
Chris Gromer, director of security and emergency management, says people have taken well to the idea of them being in there.
"We have seen no problems at all," Gromer said. "Most people walk through them without giving it a second thought."
Cone Health installed its first system in the emergency department of The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro last September. They plan to spend nearly $3 million on a dozen more units to improve security at other hospital entrances as well as its MedCenters by the end of September.
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